Controversial chiropractor still posting videos while under investigation

A Halifax-based chiropractor being investigated for online posts that include discredited views on vaccines and cancer therapies continues to share controversial information on social media that is outside her scope of practice.

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Conclusion: We intended to briefly summarize the current studies related to targeting the CSC antigens by cancer immunotherapy based on their properties. Moreover, we highlight that CSC antigens possess targeting activity in the treatment of cancer patients.
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In this study, we show that calorie restriction is protective against age-related increases in senescence and microglia activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in an animal model of aging. Further, these protective effects mitigated age-related decline in neuroblast and neuronal production, and enhanced olfactory memory performance, a behavioral index of neurogenesis in the SVZ. Our results support the concept that calorie restriction might be an effective anti-aging intervention in the context of healthy brain aging.
Greater Modest Activity in Late Life Correlates with Lower Incidence of Dementia
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ConclusionDespite the limited immunization documentation and high refusal rates observed in this study, the influenza vaccine refusal rate was lower than the average for the United States, the state of Georgia, and the previous studies of patients with cancer. Although routine outpatient vaccination occurs, improvements in screening, strategies for sharing patient vaccine-related information, and counseling of patients who refuse the vaccine are needed. Further work is also needed to determine the effectiveness of influenza vaccination in patients receiving anti-cancer therapy.

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The efficacy of cancer therapies strongly relies on their ability to reinstate cancer immunosurveillance. Numerous biomedical approaches with immunotherapeutic activity have been developed to reeducate the host immune system to detect and clear tumor cells. Cytotoxicants have been primarily designed to slow down malignant cell proliferation and to induce programmed cell death. Some cytotoxic stimuli are able to activate a particular type of apoptosis, which is referred to as immunogenic cell death (ICD), that de facto convert cancer cells into their own vaccine. This effect ultimately facilitates th...

Conclusions: Our study shows that documentation of education and administration of influenza vaccination is suboptimal in these 2 healthcare systems. Although vaccinations that occurred outside of these healthcare systems by primary care providers, pharmacies, and other providers would not be recorded in this dataset unless the patient had a hospital admission, these data suggest a gap in patient care and education that could lead to increased risk of worse outcomes from influenza infection. Routine outpatient vaccination screening and counseling in oncology clinics will be explored to improve documentation of influenza va...

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Cancer genome sequencing is useful for diagnosis and personalized treatment. Analysis of the sequencing data involves integration of computation, statistics and system biology methods. The amalgam of such methods which help study interaction of cancer cells with immune system, harnessing immune system for cancer therapy or its prevention through vaccines has led to the foundation of cancer immunomics. It is, therefore, a combinatorial science which merges diverse techniques from genomics and proteomics for diagnosis and drug design/treatment. There has been a gradual increase in establishment of cancer im...

In this report, we propose that the molecular mechanisms of beneficial actions of CR should be classified and discussed according to whether they operate under rich or insufficient energy resource conditions. Future studies of the molecular mechanisms of the beneficial actions of CR should also consider the extent to which the signals/factors involved contribute to the anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and other CR actions in each tissue or organ, and thereby lead to anti-aging and prolongevity.
RNA Interference of ATP Synthase Subunits Slows Aging in Nematodes
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(University of California - San Diego) Tamara Strauss has been living with high-grade, stage IV pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer for more than three years. Current treatments, although effective for her, are highly toxic. Tamara enrolled in a first-of-its-kind, pilot study at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health to test a personalized vaccine using her unique cancer mutations to boost an anti-tumor immune response.

(University of Helsinki) Researchers at the University of Helsinki have discovered a solution in the form of a cancer vaccine platform for improving the efficacy of oncolytic viruses used in cancer treatment.

CONCLUSIONS: These results support the clinical use of consensus MAGE-A immunogens with the capacity to target multiple MAGE-A family members to prevent tumor immune escape.
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